Captain Up

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Directory searches this plugin turns up in, and which way each one is moving. WordPress.org publishes no history of search positions, so this starts the day we first tracked a keyword and never backfills.

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3 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 2 listed. 1 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 3 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.

Directory rank

Ranked about #30,400 to #44,800, alongside the other plugins at 10+ installs. Plugins with the same install count swap places between wp.org requests, so this is where most of them sit. Checked monthly, last on 1 Nov 2026.

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

Crossed into this band 19 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.

1. ★★★★★ Aramis1977

   7.9y ago

   I simply love this product. It helped me to increase the share rate of my blog posts by 80%!

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2. ★★★★★ olikasa

   8.6y ago

   its a great plugin and gamification system

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3. ★★★★★ aishazg02

   11.1y ago

   They do limit you to 1,000 website visitors…which I find ridiculous. They should limit the number of people actually signed up in your portal. I’d pass on this, problem is, there isn’t much better out there. Regardless, I’m not shelling out $69 a month for 10 signups. I’ll gladly pay when I have enough USERS, not mere website visitors, to support the price.

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4. ★★★★★ Kiwibomb

   11.1y ago

   They limited you to 1000 VISIOTRS until they lock your account and basically extort you to a $69 a month plan, which, by the numbers on that plan, isn’t enough for a site that gets over 15k visitors a month. It should be people who SIGN UP for the service, NOT visitors. Uninstalled, and Olga is a deflecting POS on their help team. AVOID!

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5. ★★★★★ leapfrogva

   11.2y ago

   I was excited to use it, but the set up was a bit difficult to figure out. No guidelines on how to set up which points for what. Would have been helpful to see several different ways to set it up. The images are a bit childish. Biggest problem was that I wanted to try it, but since it was taking so long to set up and figure out how to use it I wanted to delete it from my site until it was all set up, but I can’t remove the darn thing. The popups are still coming up even though I’ve removed it from FTP. Would be better with faster, easier set up, not so many glitches, better images, and a better point system from the start. Great idea.. not great implementation.

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6. ★★★★★ sap323

   11.4y ago

   Its AWESOME !

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7. ★★★★★ myanajara

   11.5y ago

   its a great plugin and gamification system… but u need 2 upgrade to wordpress 4.2.2 please, i think thats why im having problemas using the plugin on my site.

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8. ★★★★★ Raradra

   12.7y ago

   Love the premise but the flaws make it impossible to use. I was initially excited about them able to earn points for sharing as well as commenting but unhappy that they didn’t get points for posting. I also wasn’t happy with people mysteriously getting thousands of points in a day for doing very little. I could have lived with most of the above except for the fact that it makes my site take several seconds longer to load and if the captain up website is down, which it was several times last week, it keeps my front page partly loaded for close to a minute before it finally acknowledges it can’t load captain up and continues to load the page without it. I am losing way too much money being crippled and unable to load for such a long period. I may come back to it should they change it where my site isn’t dependent on their site loading to work.

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Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.

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Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2025-04-15 20+ → 10+ down after 15 days in tier
2. 2025-03-31 10+ → 20+ up after 1 days in tier
3. 2025-03-30 20+ → 10+ down after 3 days in tier
4. 2025-03-27 10+ → 20+ up after 22 days in tier
5. 2025-03-05 20+ → 10+ down after 25 days in tier
6. 2025-02-08 10+ → 20+ up after 3 days in tier
7. 2025-02-05 20+ → 10+ down after 2 days in tier
8. 2025-02-03 10+ → 20+ up after 192 days in tier

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

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Captain Up: 10+ active installs, 3.7★ (12 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-11-02. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/captain-up